• @[email protected]
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      If you think about it, butter is actually the freshest cheese you can get. So, it’s really just super fresh cheese sticks.

      • IninewCrow
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        030 days ago

        The extreme of that logic is like saying you do eat your vegetables … because your food originally ate vegetables

        • @[email protected]
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          I think you have some faulty logic there. Fried eggs would be the same as scrambled eggs or fried whipped eggs. It’s a different version of the same thing.

    • qyron
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      01 month ago

      Not an american but, apparently, still as much confused as you are over the concept.

      • @[email protected]
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        As an American I understand the concept of deep frying as a personal lifestyle choice.

        I suppose the best analogy would be the difference between knowing horses were a thing and actually getting on a buking bronco.

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          030 days ago

          I grew being told, playfully, that if fried a shoe would taste nice. But no. Too much of a good thing is bad for you.

      • nelson
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        It’s called ‘oliebollen’ in Belgium and the Netherlands. They also have derivatives with apple inside and some other ones.

        Not sure which came first though ( us or be/nl ).

        Roasted butter does sound better than the literal translation from dutch ( oil balls ).

        Edit: the wiki page references them being invented in the us. The wiki page for the Dutch/Belgian variant mentions Spanish/Portuguese Jews when fleeing the the Netherlands from the Spanish inquisition.

        At least I think they’re the same as roasted butter

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          Oliebollen are fried batter, which is made of flour, yeast, salt, sugar and some liquid (water, beer, milk). I’m not familiar with the American thing but it sounds like they’re literally coating a stick of butter in batter before frying it.